If you’re a serious pro or amateur musician, you really want the Mac Studio or the MacBook Pro. A large music and/or video recording studio without budget restraints or someone who must have PCIe slot expansion may want to consider the Mac Pro. These are the three best computers for creatives you can buy today. No matter what, get a system with an Apple processor. Do not buy a system with the old Intel processor.

If you absolutely must spend less than $1999.00, consider buying used, refurbished or consumer level Macs like the Macbook Air, iMac or Mac mini. To suggest buying less than an Apple M series system is bad advice. Also see notes below in the Unified Memory section.

See: Apple Silicon is the DAW standard.